This is what mine looked like, back in the day:This was before ten siders were invented. The classic means of carrying them was a purple velvet Crown Royal bag, years before we could legally drink Crown Royal.

I thought I was the only one... Never played an RPG (not for lack of desire, just could never find anyone else willing) but I loved the dice! I once attended an auction at a local hobby store and won their entire display case full of dice of varying colors and denominations! I wish I had held on to them -

Dice aren't what they used to be. Back in the day Elvish craftsmen would use racoon whisker brushes to paint the recessed numbers on the die faces black. Now they just dump the dice into buckets of black paint and then put them in abrading machines that scrap off all of the paint except for the recessed numbers - often seriously warping the original shape of the die. And don't get me started on cheap dice with plastic tabs sticking out where they were detached from the moulds.

A good test of any dice merchant's wares is to make a stack of twenty or so of them with the same number facing down on each dice. Measure the height of the stack. Repeat with different numbers facing down. Any variance?

I've been mad about dice for about 25 years, so whenever I see pictures like these, I have a gibbering nerdgasm. At least I was in the safety of my own home this time, unlike having to check my mouth every few seconds for drool, while at PAX East this year...

Yes, my white box D&D set came with a set of dice almost identical (see post above) to the ones Snig pictured.

Really? Daaaang, I still have most but not all of mine, and I had no idea where they came from. My white box bit the dust decades ago, and I do not wish to know it would now be worth the GDP of a small European nation.